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Fresh icons for your Nintendo DS
I love this site and I now spend more time creating icons for my racer in Mario Kart than actually playing the darn thing. My favorite so far is still the hammer and sickle icon by the way.

Box art from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii and Gamecube
Can’t decide which to buy, but it will probably be both. The Gamecube box art does have a bit more color depth, I wonder if that’s due to the press scans or because the Wii want to be a bit more understated to attract more mainstream gamers. Whatever, it’s Zelda, that’s all we need to know.

The Syndicate® guild trademarks their name
The grandfathers of clan-gaming, The Syndicate, have trademarked their name, taking online gaming one-step closer to have virtual lawyers, courts, and taxation on every level. Yay.

Game developer rants off on the lack of quality coding practices within the industry
Independent game developer and software architect Wolfgang Deutsch believes there is something ailing today’s game developers, that being hacked-together, untested code. An interesting take on one of the many problems currently ailing the mainstream gaming industry.

NCsoft brining MMOs to consoles?
City of Heroes, Auto Assault and Lineage II on the Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii? Yes please! NCsoft need to mix things up a bit in order to regain their status as a high-quality massive multiplayer publishing house. This could be a step in the right direction, following them finally implementing their one monthly fee / play all NCsoft titles program! I want my City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lineage II, Guild Wars and Auto Assault for one low monthly fee dammit!

Online Blackjack
Seems to be pretty hot, with lots of online casino gaming sites popping up around the web. Who would have thought the government’s banning of domestic online gaming services would result in a massive shift of business activity (and tax revenue) offshore?

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EA sings in-game advertising deal with Massive
Yay more annoying ads in video games!

DevBump - A DIGG for game developers
DIGG clones are popping up all over the place, but, here’s one that’s actually interesting. A DIGG-like system for game developers, indie and mainstream, to list up their favorite links and spam their blogs.

Gothic 3 goes gold
JoWooD’s great medieval hope has gone gold, giving European adventure games something to be happy about for the next few months. Let’s see if Gothic 3 can turn around JoWooD’s string of bad luck over the past year.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, it’s almost here!
I love the photo at the top of this blog post so much. But not as much as I love the Wii announcements that were firing out like crazy. So it won’t be region-free, play DVDs, display 1080p on a TV I couldn’t afford to buy anyways, or contain 32 processors at 5.9ghz pumping out realistic breast physics for Final Fantasy XZXII. It’s cheap, it’s slick, it’s fun and did I mention cheap?

DEFCON pre-order sale from Steam
DEFCON for $9.95 is a steal. Indie darlings Introversion are coming on strong with their newest release, taking War Games, making it multi-player and indie-cool. We’re so in on this and you should be too.

Psychonauts digital download via Steam
Psychonauts lives on! One of the best games to have never caught on, Psychonauts is a brilliant adventure-platformer that you should own already. If you don’t, go out now, buy it, it’s dirt cheap and well worth it.

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Nintendo owned the DS charts last week
In a rare showing, Nintendo got the honour for being the first platform owner to ever grace the top-ten of Japan’s coveted software sales chart, with the top-ten belonging to the Nintendo DS sales machine. While nothing to write home about, this certainly is another black mark against Sony and it’s PSP handheld.

Eve Online breaks 30,000 simultaneous player record
Uber-MMO Eve Online is unique in that it doesn’t shard it’s game servers, allowing all players currently in-game to exist in the same galaxy. A massive technical feat of distributed computing within the games industry. The 50,000 mark isn’t far off and with thousands in China currently beta testing Eve China, I expect great things for CCP’s future.

Sony delays PS3 launch for anywhere other than the US and Japan
Dashing Playstation fanboy’s dreams all Europe, Sony announces that they made a boo boo and won’t be launching their PS3 console this November anywhere but the US and Japan. Manufacturing problems, reliance on un-proven technology or whatever, expect Microsoft and Nintendo to do all they can to move in on Europe and get the jump on the PS3.

Afrika PS3 video and screenshots
An intruiging and great-looking title from Japan. Though noone really knows what it’s about or how you’ll actually play it, if these are in-game shots I’m all revved up and ready to get my hands on Afrika. As a commentor noted, it would be great to be able to play as different animals, living out their lives and hunting or being hunted.

JoWooD announces “The Mark”
JoWooD is still around somehow and announcing new titles. After the loss of yet another of the developers (Phenomic to EA), JoWooD comes out of nowhere with what looks to be a Ghost Recon clone developed by a new studio.